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Grammar for natural language business rules [message #655359]

Sat, 19 February 2011 20:08

Richard Fagot

Messages: 1
Registered: February 2011

Junior Member

Hi,

I would like to create a natural language for writing business rules (the end language is Drools (JBoss Rules)) for a POC.

I would like to write a grammar using some keywords (uppercase words in the following example) and using phrase depending of the DSL (lowercase words in the example).

The idea is to have auto-completion for keywords and phrase. If I CTRL+space after 'the' I would like all possible words following 'the'. (for example 'age' and 'name')

Is it possible with XText ?

IF the age of the student IS LESS THAN 18
THEN the student can not drive

class Student {
  int age;
  String name;
  boolean canDrive;
}

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Re: Grammar for natural language business rules [message #655364 is a reply to message #655359]

Sat, 19 February 2011 22:40

Henrik Lindberg

Messages: 2509
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Yes.
How much you get for free (generated from the grammar), and how much you
need to customize depends on design considerations.

The Xtext documentation contains all the information you need to get
started.

- henrik

On 2/19/11 9:08 PM, Richard Fagot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to create a natural language for writing business rules
> (the end language is Drools (JBoss Rules)) for a POC.
>
> I would like to write a grammar using some keywords (uppercase words in
> the following example) and using phrase depending of the DSL (lowercase
> words in the example).
>
> The idea is to have auto-completion for keywords and phrase. If I
> CTRL+space after 'the' I would like all possible words following 'the'.
> (for example 'age' and 'name')
>
> Is it possible with XText ?
>
>
> IF the age of the student IS LESS THAN 18
> THEN the student can not drive
>
>
>
>
> class Student {
> int age;
> String name;
> boolean canDrive;
> }
>
>

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